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Media Bureau Partially Lifts Freeze on Community of License Petitions

The FCC Media Bureau is partially lifting the freeze on full-power community of license petitions, said a public notice Friday. Such petitions that don’t require a change in service area will now be accepted, eliminating the need for freeze waiver…

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requests with such petitions, the PN said. The freeze has been in place since 2004 and the DTV transition, and is being lifted now that the incentive auction is over, the PN said. “Normal processing of such petitions will have no impact on the post-incentive auction transition schedule.” The freeze on petitions requiring a change in service area remains, along with freezes on allotment of DTV channels for new stations and changes to licensed stations’ channels.